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What is a trip to South Africa without lions? Signboard at the entrance of a lion park—“trespassers will be eaten.”
By Nidhi Razdan
The Secret Diary of a
When Gatsby is finally released in India, we shall give it a seven-star rating, finally there’s an Indian star shining in the Hollywood sky.
The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas
Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats
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Movie Review
Promising to start with, but soon begins to get overbearing and irritating
Movie Review
It’s fun, sharp, smart and irreverent. Pushes many of our sanctimonious envelopes.
10 Questions
The journalist-author Kota Neelima on her third novel, farmer suicides and dynastic politics
Gossip
Those big, fat, great, Gatsby-like book launch parties may well be a thing of the past...
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cover story: match-fixing
Just as India was getting the IPL fever back, out comes another match-fixing crisis. What is it about big money that begets bigger greed?
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essay
Were this a crisis out of which something creative could emerge. But it’s a paralysed polity, clinging on to power, and leaving the nation and its people all the poorer for it.
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EXCLUSIVE: saradha scam inside sudipta’s letter
Was Sudipta Sen’s muckraking howl a TMC ploy to tarnish the President?
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Interview
Karnataka’s 22nd chief minister on his future course of action and prospects for his party
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law: SC
Of advocates’ robes, Delhi heat & a tweet
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Opinion
A crony-capitalist society can’t but produce sleuths-on-strings
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Opinion
Right to protest suffers another setback with this forum stifled
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politics bihar/muslims
Warrants against Muslims of a village in Forbesganj resurrect a 2011 police firing
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politics: food security bill
A govt in credibility crisis wants to see the food security bill through
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diplomacy: india-china
Li Keqiang’s India visit may not yield fruit on the border issue, but will be crucial for economic ties
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 Opinion This Way To ChindiaThe Chinese premier’s visit will be a balm to India’s recent wound Hu Shisheng |
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pakistan: elections
Nawaz Sharif has a ‘heavy’ mandate. Does he have the moxie to usher in a ‘Naya Pakistan’?
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mfis: turnaround
Microfinance sector sees a whiff of revival
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business: labour
Labour is bought cheap, treated cheap—in India’s garment factories as at Bangladeshi ones
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business: labour Through The Smokescreen, This Side UpAmidst the misery of Bangladeshi workers, strands that trail to India Debarshi Dasgupta |
 jump cut A Capital TyrannyWith money and the power it can buy, corporates keep profiting despite their callousness. Partha Banerjee |
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Mind your body
Sweetness is its virtue, so don’t let the weight loss industry prejudice you against it
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Review
A whodunit in trippy Goa has an artless everywoman sleuthing the slimy undercarriage of crime and tourism
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Review
Manages to encapsulate much that was right and a lot more that went wrong in Visva Bharati in a 70-year span.
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